Converting dates to numbers in RPG

I keep encountering situations where I have to write a record to some painfully old file that stores a date as an integer. Converting a date to an integer is one of those tasks that is very simple to accomplish but which I never remember how to do.

So, for future reference, here is the command for converting the current date to a seven digit integer (cyymmdd format), wrapped in a bit of code that displays the results because we all like to know what we’re writing befor we write it.